Thursday, January 05, 2006

ContraCostaTimes.com | 01/05/2006 | Blogging finds its audience in 2005

Here is an end of year/beginning of the new year overview of blogs. Dan Rubin covers most of the possible indicators of interest and tells us how blogs fared. From a comparison of "Blogs" to "Jesus" and "sex" at least insofar as what folks Googled during the year -- "blogs" topped the others, to when "blogs" entered the language, to how blogs and advertising converged, he's got the scoop. Here are some of his facts:
  • Nine percent of American adults who surf the Web write blogs(13 million people)
  • 27 percent of Internet users read them -- 39 million Americans.
  • 30,000 to 70,000 new ones blogs each day
  • 20 million to 23 million total worldwide
  • The blogosphere is doubling in size every five months for three years now. Read the article for even more goodies about blogs as we make the 2005/2006 yearly transisition. ContraCostaTimes.com | 01/05/2006 | Blogging finds its audience in 2005

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